With women, the key is permission. If they don’t give you permission to look, no matters what happens, in a woman’s mind the guys cannot look. They just aren’t allowed to. It doesn’t matter if the woman told the guy if he can or can’t, if the woman doesn’t give her permission then woe falls the unlucky lad who takes a peek. It’s complicated, and definitely infuriating for the guy, but that is how the female mind is set.